Woman arrested after bungled plot to kill her husband with coffee and rat poison killed his co-worker

In Chonburi province a woman identified at Ms. Pranee Champatong has been arrested after a bungled plot to kill her husband resulted in the death of another woman.

Ms. Champatong told the police that she had intended to kill her husband and his mistress by mixing instant coffee mix with rat poison and leaving it in his room.

However, on the 17th of November Mr. Prasit Champatong was assigned to work a night shift and his contaminated coffee was left untouched. Later two of his coworkers, Ms. Sakonrat Khon and Ms. Wilaphon Taweechat, went into his room to make themselves a cup of coffee and used the contaminated batch.

According to Ms. Sakonrat, Ms. Wilaiphon drank the whole cup of coffee in one go and very quickly succumbed to the poison, and died five minutes later. Upon seeing her friend’s death, Ms. Sakonrat, who had sipped the coffee very slowly, immediately alerted neigbours and was rushed to Chonburi Hospital where she received life saving treatment.

After a month long investigation the police arrested Ms. Champatong, who confessed to the crime before being charged with murder and attempted murder.

Ms. Champatong told the police that she and her husband had been married for over ten years and had two children. She later learned that he had another woman and the couple had many arguments about this issue. She also claimed that her husband had beaten her and this was the main motivation for her crime. She admitted to making a mistake in her plot and later learned that her husband did not like the brand of coffee she had contaminated which is probably the reason he had not consumed the fatal beverage.